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  • adjective of a flower tipped with yellow

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Examples

  • And so, we walk—past the lake, honking geese, and yellow-tipped oaks.

    CSS: Shaping the New You Jack Canfield 2010

  • And so, we walk—past the lake, honking geese, and yellow-tipped oaks.

    CSS: Shaping the New You Jack Canfield 2010

  • One day, I went into a pet shop to get her some food, and there was this precious little yellow-tipped umbrella cockatoo named Dixie.

    It Ain’t All About the Cookin’ Paula Deen 2007

  • One day, I went into a pet shop to get her some food, and there was this precious little yellow-tipped umbrella cockatoo named Dixie.

    It Ain’t All About the Cookin’ Paula Deen 2007

  • She did notice a good lot of bluish, evil-smelling smoke coming from about the bearings between his feet, but she thought this was one of the natural concomitants of motor-traction, and troubled no more about it, until abruptly it burst into a little yellow-tipped flame.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • The phrase “design inference” seemed to me to be hollow–because my tomato plants are wilted and have yellow-tipped leaves, I infer/deduce from previous experience that a frost hit them.

    The Great Debate - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • He wore a second-hand uniform coat on which his mother had sewn loops of tarnished gold lace, then turned up the yellow-tipped sleeves so they did not fall down over his hands.

    Sharpe's Christmas Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2003

  • He wore a second-hand uniform coat on which his mother had sewn loops of tarnished gold lace, then turned up the yellow-tipped sleeves so they did not fall down over his hands.

    Sharpe's Christmas Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2003

  • Here “green grow the rushes,” especially the big-headed Kasbá (Arundo donax); the yellow-tipped

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • It also has a yellow-tipped protuberance growing on the crown between the eyes.

    5 Chicken 1991

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